PROCESSING
How many heads of breeding cattle are needed as source of manure to generate 75 m3 of biogas
a day if the retention period is 25 days and water-manure ratio is 1:1. The mean daily manure
production of breeding cattle is 13 kg/head while its specific gas production for 25-day manure
retention period is half of that of chicken dung.
Estimate the biogas production in cubic meters per day from a large balloon type digester using
1:1 water-manure ratio. The source farm has 1,000 heads of porkers of mixed ages. Use a
retention period of 30 days. The mean daily manure production of porkers is 2.2 kg/head while
the specific gas production for 30-day manure retention period is 0.063 m3/kg.
Determine the required digester volume of a biogas plant that will accommodate manure from a
broiler farm having a capacity of 20,000 heads of mixed ages. Use 30-day retention period and
1:1 manure-water ratio. The mean daily manure production of broiler is 0.025 kg head^-1 while
its specific gas production for 30-day manure retention period is 0.062 m^3 kg^-1. Chicken dung
density is 950 kg m^-3. Answer rounded to whole number in m^3.
What is the moisture content in dry basis of a paddy that has a moisture content of 22% wet
basis? Round your answer in nearest hundredths.
A 50-kg chevon with a temperature of 6°C is brought to a large freezer and required to be cooled
down to -18°C. The chevon was boxed in a 0.03-kg plastic packaging with capacity ratio of 1
kg:1 box having a specific heat of 1.4 kJ per kg per °C. Compute for the total refrigeration load
in kJ rounded to nearest tenths, if the specific heat of the chevon is 3.32 kJ per kg per °C above
freezing and 1.77 kJ per kg per °C below freezing. Chevon’s freezing point is at -2.8°C and the
latent heat of freezing is 247 kJ per kg.
A Carnot engine is working between two reservoirs with temperatures of 1000°C and 500°C,
what is the thermal efficiency of the system?
A Carnot Refrigerator is use to cool the water of a family from 25°C to 10°C at a rate of 5kg/hr.
The COP of the system is 3.1. Determine the amount of work input on the system.
Given consumption rate of 150kg/hr and latent heat of vaporization of 335kJ/kg, determine the
heat transferred.
A grain dryer was used to reduce the moisture content of two tons of paddy rice from 25% to
14% wet basis. What is the total amount of paddy in kilograms?
A grain dryer was used to reduce the moisture content of two tons of paddy rice from 25% to
14% wet basis. What is the total moisture content?
A grain dryer was used to reduce the moisture content of 2000 kg of paddy rice from 26% to
14% wet basis. What is the total amount of paddy in kilograms?
A refrigeration system operates on the reversed Carnot cycle. The higher temperature of the
refrigerant in the system is 120°F and the lower is 10°F. The capacity is 20 tons. Determine COP.
The rate of radiation of a black body at 0 0C is E watt.
Then the rate of radiation of this black body at 273 0C will be:
Compute the heat to be removed from 110kg of lean beef if it were to be cooled from 20oC to
4oC, after which it is frozen and cooled to -18oC. Specific heat of beef above freezing is 3.23kJ/
(kgoC) and below freezing is 1.68kJ/ (kgoC). Freezing point is -2.2oC and latent heat of fusion is
233kJ/kg.
What is the equivalent size in square millimeter of a 250 MCM cable?
What is the moisture content in dry basis of a corn that has a moisture content of 20% wet basis?
